BAPTISTS. 



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magnates by birth aro retained, besides those 

 qualified by paying land-taxes of 3,000 florins 

 or above, 50 others who are elected once for 

 all. The Catholic prelates and the heads of 

 Protestant religious bodies have seats in the 

 reformed upper house. The old house num- 

 bered 900 members, two thirds being nobles of 

 small property ; but in the reformed Chamber 

 of Magnates the hereditary principle is attached 

 to the great landed estates. 



The House of Representatives is elected by 

 direct suffrage, limited by a small tax-paying 

 qualification, from which certain educated 

 classes are relieved. Members are elected for 

 three years. The house consists of 337 Hunga- 

 rian deputies, 75 Transylvanian, 34 delegates 

 from Croatia and Slavonia, and 1 from Fiume. 



The Council of Ministers is composed as 

 follows: President, Coloman Tisza de Boros- 

 Yeno, appointed Feb. 25, 1875; Minister of 

 Finance, Count G-. Szapary, appointed Dec. 6, 

 1878 ; Minister of National Defense, Baron 

 Bela d'Orczy, appointed Dec. 26, 1883; Min- 

 ister near the King's person, Baron Bela 

 d'Orczy, appointed Aug. 12, 1879 ; Minister 

 of the Interior, Coloman'Tisza de Boros-Yeno, 

 appointed Dec. 6, 1875 ; Minister of Education 

 and Public Worship, August de Trefort, ap- 

 pointed Feb. 26, 1877; Minister of Justice, 

 Dr. Theodor Pauler, appointed Dec. 6, 1878; 

 Minister of Communications and Public 

 Works, Baron de Kemeny, appointed Oct. 14, 

 1882; Minister of Agriculture. Industry, and 

 Commerce, Count Szechenyi, appointed Oct. 

 14, 1882; Minister for Croatia and Slavonia, 

 Count de Bedekovich, appointed Feb. 26, 1877. 



Finances. -The revenue in 1884 was 310,858,- 

 230 florins, including 6,800,000 florins ad- 

 vanced on a loan, and the expenditures 318,- 

 605,680 florins. The budget estimates for 

 1885 give the total receipts as 326,317,695 

 florins, including 12,492,678 florins of transi- 

 tory revenue. The total expenditures are esti- 

 mated at 337,993,528 florins, including transi- 

 tory expenditures amounting to 2,000,577 flor- 

 ins, investments to the amount of 23,020,876 

 florins, and 4,195,805 florins of extraordinary 

 common expenditure. The principal heads of 



ordinary expenditure are 105,547,947 florins 

 for the national debts, 56,310,867 florins for 

 financial administration, 28,530,079 florins as 

 the Hungarian quota of common expenditure, 

 23,771,260 florins for state railways, 14,726,- 

 233 florins on account of the Ministry of Com- 

 munications, and 18,757,869 florins on debts 

 of guaranteed railways, 10,168,429 florins for 

 the Ministry of the Interior, 10,918,688 florins 

 for the Ministry of Justice, 7,447,151 florins 

 for National Defense, 6,011,408 florins for the 

 administration of Croatia, 5,515,231 florins for 

 Public Worship, and the civil list of 4,650,000 

 florins. About one fourth of the revenue is 

 derived from direct taxes, the house-tax in 

 1885 being estimated at 8,900,000 florins, the 

 land-tax at 38,000,000 florins, and the tax on 

 profits, incomes, etc., at 25,540,000 florins. 

 About one third of the revenue comes from 

 indirect taxes and monopolies. 



The special public debt of Hungary, which 

 has grown up chiefly from the large and in- 

 creasing annual deficits, amounted in 1884 to 

 1,273,350,000 florins. The value of the public 

 property was estimated in 1883 at 1,316,100,- 

 000 florins. 



Hungarian Exhibition. A National Hungarian 

 Exhibition was opened at Buda-Pesth on May 

 2. The exhibits were not confined to Hun- 

 garian products. Most of the machinery was 

 American and English, exhibited by firms hav- 

 ing patents in Hungary. Vienna furniture, 

 Parisian jewelry, and Bohemian glassware 

 were displayed, and a special pavilion was de- 

 voted to Roumanian and Servian products. 

 The specially Hungarian exhibits show the 

 considerable development that the young in- 

 dustries of the monarchy have made since the 

 date of political independence, before which 

 pipes, swords, and saddlery about completed 

 the list of Hungarian manufactures. There 

 was a promising assortment of woolen cloths, 

 linens, hosiery, hardware, leather manufact- 

 ures, furs, furniture, perfumery, artificial flow- 

 ers, canned meats and preserves, and pottery 

 and majolica of strikingly original and artistic 

 designs, besides vehicles, harness, and saddlery 

 in the ornate national taste. 



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BAPTISTS. I. Regular Baptists in America. 



The following is a summary of the statis- 

 tics of the regular Baptist churches in the 

 United States, as they are given in the " Amer- 

 ican Baptist Year-Book" for 1885: Number 

 of associations, 1,178; of ordained ministers, 

 16,678; of churches, 28,599 ; of members of 

 churches, 2,507,753 ; increase by baptism dur- 

 ing the year, 135,740; number of Sunday- 

 schools, 10,994, with 82,247 officers and teach- 

 ers, and 792,780 pupils. Value of church prop- 

 erty, $26,685,959. Amount of contributions, 

 so far as reported : for salaries and expenses, 



$4,702,382; for missions, $661,166; for edu- 

 cation, $104,158; miscellaneous contributions, 

 $1,292,166; making an aggregate of $6,579,- 

 872. The statistics of the educational institu- 

 tions show V theological institutions, with 48 

 instructors and 467 students; 29 universities 

 and colleges, with 286 instructors and 4,358 

 students; 60 academies and seminaries, with 

 463 teachers and 6,960 pupils; and 15 institu- 

 tions for the colored race and Indians, with 

 111 instructors and 2,292 pupils; in all, 111 

 institutions, with 908 instructors and 14,077 

 pupils. The total value of the grounds and 



